Student Name: Taylor Pagel

Title of Work : A Doll’s House

Character
Choose a character or pair of
characters and what purpose
they serve in the work. Then,
describe how the author
achieves this purpose.
Theme
Choose a theme in work and
explain its significance to the
work as a whole. Then, describe
how the author conveys this
theme.
Plot
Choose an aspect of the plot
(point of view, conflict,
resolution, etc) and explain how
the author crafts the work as a
whole.
Global Issue
Identify and describe a global
issue that the author addresses in
the work. Then, list how the
author develops the global issue.

5-7 sentence ● The protagonist of ● The author discusses ● The resolution of Nora ● Women are expected
explanation of ideas the play and the wife the sacrificial role of leaving her husband to be mothers and
in the work. of Torvald Helmer. women in society and abandoning her caretakers and only
● Nora initially seems ● Women are expected duties as a mother and that
like a playful, naïve to put themselves wife to fulfil the duty ● The implication of
child who lacks beneath men and she has to educate gender roles is
knowledge of the allow themselves to and car for herself addressed in the book
world outside her melt into the shadows ● It is what she has through Nora’s
home. ● It is significant decided to do because relationship with her
● She does have some because the main she finally recognizes husband and the
worldly experience, protagonist Nora is that she deserves to condescending manner
however, and the forced to obey her have happiness and many people, including
small acts of husband and be educated other women, have
rebellion in which subjected to his ruling ● She wants to develop toward Nora solely do
she engages ● This leads her to have her own beliefs to the fact that she is a
indicate that she is to perform measures because she woman
not as innocent or behind his back that recognizes that the ● Torvald is also
happy as she lead to legal ones that have been expected to prideful
appears. consequences put in her mind by her and hold up societies
● She comes to see ● The entire problem father and then her expectations by
her position in her could have easily been husband are not providing for his family
marriage with avoided if women were necessarily correct in any way possible
increasing clarity and seen as equal to that
finds the strength to of men
 free herself from her
oppressive situation.

Author technique or ● Motif of macaroons ● Motif of clothes which ● Leading up to the ● Motif of stoves which
strategies (bullet which indicate her indicate women being resolution Nora is only reveal how women are
points) rebellion and her forced to dress up for seen as accepting her expected to stay in
unhappiness in her their husbands role in society and their respective place
You may wish to situation despite her ● Nora wears her street simply scared to lose and that men become
consider: motifs, acting that clothes but then must her husband and her uncomfortable when
symbols, character everything is alright dress nice before children they are put into that
foils, narrative ● Motif of a christmas Torvald sees her ● But when the time lower position
technique, plot trees which signifies ● When Nora leaves she comes Nora is no ● The closing of doors
structure. the evolution of is dressed in her street longer afraid to lose reveals the disconnect
Nora’s character clothes her family, in fact it is between women and
from when she is ● Light and darkness her decision to leave men
forced to put on a which reveal how Nora to dollhouse behind in ● The condescending
facade of beauty has to put a facade for order to better herself nicknames reveals how
similar to that of Torvald but is able to men view women as
Christmas tree lights be her true self in front pets or play things
and then to the of Dr. Rank
harsh reality of life